This week, put up your dukes and get ready to swing with Hanzohattori's handy collection of the best clips of drunken filmic fisticuffs
Sleeping with a robotic madam or rubbing rifles with Yul Brynner might not be everyone's idea of a holiday. But there's one part of Michael Crichton's gunslinging classic, Westworld, that easily justifies the thousand-dollar-a-day admission: the nightly bar brawl. That's because it follows the classic movie convention that any fight involving alcohol is barely a fight at all: it's an excuse to flip over card tables, swing on chandeliers and – if you're lucky – be slid face-first along the bar and into the chorus girls' dressing room.
If you're really unlucky you might have to duck a haymaker or have a bottle of moonshine smashed over your hat, but it's still a far cry from a real scrap in boozy Britain, where you're more likely to end...
Sleeping with a robotic madam or rubbing rifles with Yul Brynner might not be everyone's idea of a holiday. But there's one part of Michael Crichton's gunslinging classic, Westworld, that easily justifies the thousand-dollar-a-day admission: the nightly bar brawl. That's because it follows the classic movie convention that any fight involving alcohol is barely a fight at all: it's an excuse to flip over card tables, swing on chandeliers and – if you're lucky – be slid face-first along the bar and into the chorus girls' dressing room.
If you're really unlucky you might have to duck a haymaker or have a bottle of moonshine smashed over your hat, but it's still a far cry from a real scrap in boozy Britain, where you're more likely to end...
- 5/12/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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